We! The People Webzine: VIEW FROM THE CHAIR, 2-13-2007, by Ron McBride

VIEW FROM THE CHAIR

by Ron McBride
February 18, 2007

It's hard to believe that February is almost over. Time marches on, and scrambling for the nominations of both parties has become a modern day Oklahoma Land Rush. As 25, that's right folks, 25 candidates are now in the running for President. Each one is trying to stake his claim to a portion of the voting public.

While the debates soar over who will make the best candidates, we the voters are left to sort through volumes of background stories, and of course the inevitable lies, and rumors that spread those lies.

The recent Right Wing Lie Brigade managed to force the resignation of two of John Edwards' bloggers. And believe me they were just that, lies. Amanda Marcotte, blogmaster, and Melissa McEwan blog consultant both resigned within a day of each other, even after Edwards said he would not fire them. I was proud of Edwards for standing up for what was right, whose strong stands against the Iraq war and in favor of a broad national health insurance plan have made him popular among the more ideologically committed bloggers and their audiences.

This is the type of attacks that each of us expects in the upcoming elections, nothing much has changed except the Karl Rove types are becoming more prominent online, playing at being the next Rush Limbaugh to the online world. They select a target and start creating the appearance of smoke, and with enough smoke, even if imagined by their operatives, people begin believing there is a fire and before you know it another progressive is left along the side of the road, as the right wing agitators gleefully head off in another direction seeking a new target. Through smoke and mirrors and fear mongering, the Right Wing Gang in the Whitehouse have managed to bamboozle a majority of the people over the last few years.

It's time to break the mirrors and blow away their smoke. Its time to calm the fears of alleged and manufactured threats. We must each of us take anything in the mainstream media with a grain of salt. In NM there is a radio station that refuses to broadcast anything from newswires or mainstream media that says it is from an undisclosed source, because the neocons have learned that they can manipulate this media by planting lies.

Too bad WeDemocrats can't afford to hire blogmasters like these ladies to head our Blogger Corps. With the kind of honesty and straight talk they produce we could make a strong fence to ward off Right Wing attacks. Without a unified effort we are each individually vulnerable to these coordinated attacks.

Okay, on to membership, we now have 2,487 members. Our mailing list now tops 32,000, but we are pruning it down to eliminate those who are not active in politics or online activities.

Donations are still needed to support WeDems and can be made from the main website.

You will notice I am not including a bunch of links within the body of these weekly updates, mainly because I want people to go to the website and to the webzine sites to follow-up on various items. But also because it takes time to find and link various locations. Without a paid staff, our core group of volunteers who run WeDems are hard pressed to find the time to do anything extra.

Norla says she needs an assistant editor for WE! The People, Allie needs an assistant to help with various website work, I have an Executive Assistant in Becky (shucks this gal could run the whole operation), but she needs help as well. Gary and Larry our National Field Directors both need help in lots of areas, so please re-examine your lives and consider volunteering an hour here or there to help these wonderful hard working people who have only your interest at heart.

Ron McBride
WeDemocrats.org
Founder & Chairman
Publisher of WE! The People online magazine
ron@wedemocrats.org

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